Richard Lloyd

Guitar ace Richard Lloyd has wandered through a journeyman’s career in the decades after Television, the band in which he sparred with fellow fret wizard Tom Verlaine. After blowing minds with elegant, eloquent originals on the fast-and-dirty CBGB’s scene, Lloyd bounced between notable session work for other artists and his own occasional solo outings, ever maintaining a reputation as a musician’s musician. He’s a guy rooted in formative ’60s experiences but whose sound is forever tied to the punk-era supernova of a band that made only two studio albums.

On tour are Lloyd and his three Stratocasters in a combo dubbed the Radiant Monkey Trio after his 2007 album. Yet the show features a substantial amount of Jimi Hendrix covers, drawn from Lloyd’s new The Jamie Neverts Story. As a teenager in Brooklyn, Lloyd befriended Velvert Turner, another budding guitarist who not only was tight with Hendrix but studied at the feet of the icon. Since no one would believe them anyway, the boys made a code name for the hero they snuck off to visit: James Neverts.

It’s a great story, doubtless to be amplified through Lloyd’s lyrical and explosive tributes to the canon. Even more in that spirit, he promises, will be improvisatory interludes and extemporized lyrics that guarantee the show will be much more than the sum of two legendary guitarists’ greatest hits.

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